Both intrepidwalker and tjsnaps' post processing efforts are impressive. I believe I favor the closer cropped version tjsnaps came up with, though. Intrepidwalker stated his took about then minutes, I am curious how long tjsnaps took (ya'll can feel free to use a real name ya know). I have little experience with PPing but I would have guessed it would have taken me an hour ortwo to make these kind of changes. This kind of time requirement has kept me from doing much more than WB, resize, crop, and some mild sharpening work. I would probably do more with it if I could learn how to do it faster.

The gentleman in the picture is actually... me! Taken several beers into a BBQ i was throwing for a couple friends, one of em grabbed the camera and snapped just as i was looking up! You can see some smoke from the BBQ to the right.

For those curious, in the tankard is Unibroue's "Fin Du Monde" (translates to "End of the World") Probably one of the best beers you can find on supermarket shelves here. It's 9% per volume :?

tjsnaps, i'm not an axe murderer! I'm a good boy :lol: But that's a fairly perceptive assessment. I'm not a danger to society but I'm a malcontent, so i don't know how to smile. What can I say?

At first glance, I didn't even notice the blown portion above the head, but now that you guys mentioned it, it's getting to me! I briefly tried using the burn tool to darken it a bit but it looked fairly unnatural. I will definitely play with this pic some more/

That's some very impressive cloning, though I'm not sure I'd want to completely obliterate the background. I like to keep the image close to the original scene. I think with some selective manipuation, I could probably get the highlight portion to be slightly less noticeable, but like I said I need to play with it some more.